Emulators - Black Screen

[Interstellar Overdrive]

Hi all,

Sorry for bringing this up again. but...

Ive just started to get all my emu's in to a frontend, gameex being my choice.

so as all the other problem threads.. my MAME works fine, and i can get game lists for all the emulators etc. but ZSnes, Nesticle, SegaGen etc all just ptovide me with a black screen when trying to load a rom.

Ive tried doing what it says in the FAQ but the black screen is still there.

any help would be much appreciated as its driving me up the wall and is probably very simple to sort out.

Ive attatched a copy of the gamex.ini file to the post, hope it helps.

thanks

GameEx.txt

[oxbow]

Set Showdesktop=true, maybe this will help

[Interstellar Overdrive]

Set Showdesktop=true, maybe this will help

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

thanks for the reply,

show desktop is already set to true for SNES and i've just set it to show desktop for NES but still with no luck,

any more suggestions?

[alonzo44]

thanks for the reply,

show desktop is already set to true for SNES and i've just set it to show desktop for NES but still with no luck,

any more suggestions? 

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Out of curiousity, what NES emulator are you using? VirtualNES?

Make sure that you have your emulator set to FULL SCREEN UPON OPENING ROM. Otherwise it will run in a small window behind GameEX. Hence, the black screen.

I had that problem last week.

Let me know if that helps

[David R Hilgendorf]

Tom could you make the HideOS feature toggle-able, or tell me how to turn it off if it already is? I am not sure I need that program running and it seems to cause problems for others as well, especially when tshooting.

Thanks.

[Interstellar Overdrive]

Out of curiousity, what NES emulator are you using?  VirtualNES? 

Make sure that you have your emulator set to FULL SCREEN UPON OPENING ROM.  Otherwise it will run in a small window behind GameEX.  Hence, the black screen.

I had that problem last week.

Let me know if that helps

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Alonzo44,

I am using virtualNes,

but what i get with this is different, instead of the black screen the virtualnes emulator opens up in its small window, but no rom plays or even opens up in to full screen.

and i'm still at the same stage with the ZSnes just the normal black window and the windows taskbar dissapears.

all very strange and confusing (no doubt very common and simple to others )

I am currently trying GameEx and my emulators etc on another machine so i can get them all working and troubleshoot etc before i transfer them on to my new arcade / jukebox pc. But at the moment im having no luck.

thanks for the idea!

I - O

[hieule91]

hi,

I'm using 3.51 version of GameEX. I'm trying to run ZINC from GameEX on my laptop. I don't have any issue with running ZINC in DOS window. When Zinc is launched from GameEX, I only got a blank screen, but I can tell that it is running because I can hear the sound of the game and when I press "5", I can tell that I'm putting in coin to play in ZINC.

Can anyone help?

Thx

Hieu

[h8sh8]

hi,

I'm using 3.51 version of GameEX.  I'm trying to run ZINC from GameEX on my laptop.  I don't have any issue with running ZINC in DOS window.  When Zinc is launched from GameEX, I only got a blank screen, but I can tell that it is running because I can hear the sound of the game and when I press "5", I can tell that I'm putting in coin to play in ZINC.

Can anyone help?

Thx

Hieu

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

With Zinc, you might need to change the line in "renderer.cfg" to...

FullScreen = 1 ; Fullscreen mode: 0/1

Pretty sure it's set at 0 by default.

Can't remember if there was anything else that had to be changed, sorry mate, hopefully that's all.

[hieule91]

With Zinc, you might need to change the line in "renderer.cfg" to...

FullScreen  = 1    ; Fullscreen mode: 0/1

Pretty sure it's set at 0 by default.

Can't remember if there was anything else that had to be changed, sorry mate, hopefully that's all.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I think I've found the problem:

When launching ZINC from GameEX, I had to use renderer.znc from d3d engine. Can't use "opengl" version at all, even though it works fine from MAMEWAH or DOS command line. I would like to use "opengl" because it is about 5-10 fps faster than "d3d"

Hieu

[hieule91]

I think I've found the problem:

When launching ZINC from GameEX, I had to use renderer.znc from d3d engine.  Can't use "opengl" version at all, even though it works fine from MAMEWAH or DOS command line.  I would like to use "opengl" because it is about 5-10 fps faster than "d3d"

Hieu

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Tom,

Any thought on this yet? I have no problem running this command from DOS and MAMEWAH

f:\zinc\zinc.exe 8 --roms-directory=f:\mame\roms --use-renderer-cfg-file=f:\zinc\renderer.cfg --renderer=f:\zinc\renderer.znc

The renderer.znc is from opengl. Is any program that GameEx launching in the background that prevent opengl from running properly? If I use d3d renderer then I don't have this issue, but I would like to use opengl since it gives me better performance

Please help me because I would like to use GameEx as my frontend since the moving menus are so cool (MAMEWAH can't do this)

THx

Hieu

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03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: GameEx: Version 3.63: Starting Log

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Operating System Platform ID: Win32NT

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Operating System Version: 5.1

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Running Randomize()

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Running Misc startup tasks

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Hiding Cursor

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Setting Menu types

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Opening Configuration File

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Getting Configuration Values

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Using Theme: Default - Video Fun

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Video Fun

03:18:25.1 4/29/2005: Applying Language/Text

03:18:25.2 4/29/2005: SlikStik support enabled

03:18:25.2 4/29/2005: Using DirectInput for keyboard input

03:18:25.2 4/29/2005: Launching HideOS.exe

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Hiding Taskbar

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Getting Original Screen Size

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Loading ICON

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Initializing Component

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Initialising DirectDraw

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Applying GameEx is Loading Image

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Creating DirectDraw Device

03:18:25.9 4/29/2005: Setting Resolution to 1024x768 32 bit color

03:18:26.5 4/29/2005: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces

03:18:26.5 4/29/2005: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode

03:18:26.7 4/29/2005: Creating Back Buffer

03:18:26.7 4/29/2005: Loading graphic surfaces

03:18:27.9 4/29/2005: Creating Fonts

03:18:27.9 4/29/2005: Creating Menu Font

03:18:27.9 4/29/2005: Creating Game Font

03:18:28.0 4/29/2005: Creating Menu Font Standard Size

03:18:28.4 4/29/2005: Creating Font Black

03:18:28.5 4/29/2005: Creating Font Black Small

03:18:28.5 4/29/2005: Creating Game Font Faded

03:18:28.6 4/29/2005: Creating Title Font

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: Initialising Windows Media Player Component

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: HTML Apps is on, initialising Web Browser Component

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: MAME Path is: f:\mame

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: ZiNc Path is: f:\zinc

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: ZiNc EXE file is: zinc.exe

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: Use ZiNc on. zinc.exe will launch PSX games

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: MAME EXE file is: mame.exe

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: ROM Path is: f:\mame\roms

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: Catver.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: controls.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\data\controls.ini

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: History.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\history.dat

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat

03:18:29.0 4/29/2005: Loading Controls.ini map file

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: Loading Custom Emulators

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: Snap Path is: f:\mame\snap

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: AVI Snap Path is: f:\mame_common\videosnap

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: Flyer Path is: f:\mame\flyers

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: Cabinet Path is: f:\mame\cabinets

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: Title Path is: f:\mame\titles

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: Panel Path is: f:\mame\cpanel

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: Icon Path is: f:\mame\icons

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: Marquee Path is: f:\mame\marquees

03:18:29.1 4/29/2005: Attempting to load game list

03:18:29.2 4/29/2005: Loading last used Game List

03:18:29.4 4/29/2005: Initialising Bass Audio Library

03:18:29.5 4/29/2005: Creating DirectSound Device

03:18:29.5 4/29/2005: Trying: Primary Sound Driver

03:18:29.5 4/29/2005: Loading Sound Files

03:18:29.5 4/29/2005: DirectSound Device Created Successfully

03:18:29.5 4/29/2005: Creating ICONS

03:18:29.5 4/29/2005: Restoring Cached ICONS from File

03:18:30.0 4/29/2005: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support

03:18:30.1 4/29/2005: Initialising DirectInput for Keyboard support

03:18:30.2 4/29/2005: Playing Startup Video

03:18:30.2 4/29/2005: Playing intro sound file

03:18:30.2 4/29/2005: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!

03:18:30.2 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame

03:18:30.2 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Getting Tick count

03:18:30.3 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Checking for song change

03:18:30.3 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Checking Keyboard for Input

03:18:30.3 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Front buffer exists?

03:18:30.3 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Surfaces need restore?

03:18:30.3 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Checking Joystick for input

03:18:30.3 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Drawing Background

03:18:30.3 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Drawing Logo

03:18:30.4 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Flipping Surfaces

03:18:30.4 4/29/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

03:18:54.3 4/29/2005: Running: cmd.exe /c f: f:\zinc\zinc.exe 8 --roms-directory=f:\mame\roms --use-renderer-cfg-file=f:\zinc\renderer.cfg --renderer=f:\zinc\renderer.znc

03:19:55.7 4/29/2005: Exiting GameEx!

03:19:55.7 4/29/2005: Saving Settings

03:19:55.7 4/29/2005: Writing Game List to disk

[Tom Speirs]

If I use d3d renderer then I don't have this issue, but I would like to use opengl since it gives me better performance

Please help me because I would like to use GameEx as my frontend since the moving menus are so cool (MAMEWAH can't do this)

I am afraid your out of luck if you want to use OpenGL. At least for the moment.